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...External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent said that economic regimentation, gradually relaxed since war's end, might return...
...Canada," said External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent a fortnight ago in a fine burst of international spirit, "will be confronted with new . . . responsibilities" in the U.N. One of them would be helping to settle such problems as that of Palestine...
...Laurent's Under Secretary, Lester Pearson, had already done an able job as chairman of the U.N. Assembly's special committee on Palestine. Last week, U.N. delegates talked about giving him that job again. But Minister St. Laurent sidestepped. "Mike" Pearson was needed at home. Said the Toronto Globe & Mail, acidly: "If Mr. Pearson could readily be spared from Ottawa, he would not be the kind of man whose services are in demand for major U.N. undertakings...
Canadians know whom they want for their next Prime Minister, though they don't know when they will get him. In a Gallup poll last week, External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent and Justice Minister James Lorimer Ilsley were tied for first place. Professional politicians quickly ruled out Ilsley; he would be a political liability, they held, because as a wartime Finance Minister he could be blamed for high wartime taxes. Their money was on St. Laurent of Quebec...
...External Affairs Minister has finally put aside his plans to return to private law practice and has decided to stay in politics. To Canadian politicians, that means that St. Laurent knows he is first in line for Mackenzie King's job. A brilliant lawyer and a respected politician, with a full grasp of both French and English, St. Laurent has only one political handicap: his age. He is 65, and cannot be expected to be Prime Minister for more than a few years. For the longer haul, the Liberal Party must find a younger...